Howie Mandel Defends Meghan Markle Over ‘Deal Or No Deal’ Feedback – Hollywood Life

There was a minor uproar when Meghan Markle stated that her time on Deal Or No Deal “pressured [me] to be all appears to be like and little substance” as she stood by her numbered briefcase and that she finally felt like she was a “bimbo” on the present. “I get it. I felt like nothing [too],” Howie Mandel instructed Us Weekly on Oct. 27. The present’s former host stated that he “[didn’t] assume she’s maligning Deal or No Deal. … I’ve by no means actually heard anyone complain, and I don’t assume Meghan is complaining. I feel Meghan simply stated she needed to do extra. It wasn’t fulfilling for her.”

Howie, 66, empathized with Meghan over her feedback about how Deal Or No Deal felt reductive and diminishing. “I get it as a result of — I’ve by no means stated this earlier than — however that they had this pyramid of 26 stunning, clever ladies standing there simply watching me like I used to be a bit of meat,” he stated. “I used to be within the heart, simply dressed up in a swimsuit, and I felt like I’m greater than this. And they’d simply have a look at me, and I needed to do nothing.” Like Meghan, Howie discovered the expertise on Deal missing. “And that’s why I’ve moved on and turn into a choose on America’s Received Expertise. I simply wanted greater than to be a Deal or No Deal host.”

With that stated, Howie did say that the present was “an amazing office surroundings” and that Meghan was doubtless speaking about “what was occurring her thoughts” throughout her time on the present. “I don’t assume there weren’t ever [any] complaints from any of the [other] ladies,” stated Mandel. “And in contrast to most reveals up till that time, the women had extra to do. They weren’t simply stating items and opening [cases], quite a lot of occasions they have been mic’d, and so they had their enter.”

“I don’t know why there’s a huge hoopla,” stated Howie, “besides I’ve to say that me standing there with 26 ladies watching me made me really feel like a bimbo.”

Meghan made her feedback throughout an episode of her Spotify podcast Archetypes. “I used to be grateful for the job, however not for the way it made me really feel, which was not sensible,” stated Markle. “I used to be surrounded by sensible ladies on that stage with me, however that wasn’t the main focus of why we have been there. …  didn’t like being pressured to be all appears to be like and little substance, and that’s the way it felt for me on the time. Being lowered to this particular archetype: the phrase ‘bimbo.’” Meghan additionally alleged {that a} girl on the manufacturing staff would inform her to “suck it in” as a approach to seem skinnier.

Donna Feldman, one other former “Briefcase Magnificence” on Deal Or No Deal, instructed HollywoodLife that she “[has] to disagree with what’s being stated. Throughout my time on the present, neither myself nor anyone else I labored with was ever handled as such, for my part. Nonetheless, it’s essential to notice that everybody has their very own expertise, and I can solely communicate from mine.”